CollectionVictorian Papers, Main Series
ReferenceVIC/MAIN/A/56/20
Record TypeCorrespondence
TitleLetter from Mr Gladstone to Queen Victoria
Date3 August 1882
WriterGladstone, William Ewart
AddresseeVictoria, Queen
DescriptionCabinet considered various questions relating to Egypt. Deliberations of the Conference on the police of the Suez Canal should not be precipitated. Bills which the Porte said to have drawn on Egyptian Treasury not to be honoured. Telegraph through Syria to Constantinople [Istanbul], used by Arabi, to be cut. Sir B. Seymour not to allow Turkish troops to land in Egypt till the Proclamation against Arabi is issued and Military Convention concluded.
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